Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large basket for holding or carrying clothes or household linen for washing.
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Examples
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Not to be behindhand in these essential particulars, we caused two very respectable sacks of sugar-plums (each about three feet high) and a large clothes-basket full of flowers to be conveyed into our hired barouche, with all speed.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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William buckets, and George a big clothes-basket, which he and
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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Downstairs in the tesselated corridor, where lilac rapped and beckoned at the windows, the perambulator was in waiting — a big-bellied clothes-basket on wheels.
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And Polly rose from her knees before a clothes-basket which she was filling with crockery, and bustled away to fetch the cake she had baked for such an occasion.
Australia Felix 2003
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Fuming, she put aside the wicker clothes-basket and stepped out into the night. a hand extended to catch the first drops.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Fuming, she put aside the wicker clothes-basket and stepped out into the night. a hand extended to catch the first drops.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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We girls had dressed the house with flowers; old Mr. Coolidge sent in a clothes-basket full.
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Anne was left alone in the cottage with the baby, who slept in the clothes-basket she had turned into a cradle.
Women of the Country Gertrude Bone
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Tucking it in at the feet of the child, she lifted the clothes-basket and carried it upstairs.
Women of the Country Gertrude Bone
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It was with fear and trembling that I came forward, and offered to get the clothes-basket and bring in the clothes.
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